Friday, August 6, 2010

So my grandpa has apricots and sweet peaches coming out of the wa-zoo! Literally. Two days ago we picked over 150lbs of apricots and you can't even tell. Anyone want apricots? Here is the huge lug we brought home to share with Justin's family.

So what to do with all of these apricots? We usually make apricot jam, juice (my favorite), dried apricots that are de-lish and we do some canning. Seriously though, after peeling that many apricots I get bored really quick. Good thing I have help on the canning today!

As for peaches, well that's a different story! I have tons of recipes that call for fresh peaches. I made not one, but 2 fresh peach pies today! Look at my Becky homemaker skills!

After making the pies I still had a ton of peaches left over so I decided to make a peach smoothie. Then I realized that I had a ton of raspberries in the garden so I made me a raspberry-peach smoothie for me and Beckham! He was very happy!

Can you believe that still, after all of that, I have a ton of peaches left over!? I'm going to have to freeze them and save them for future smoothies~ I get more peaches today too! I bet I bring home another 40lbs! No joke...

With sweet peaches or "cling" peaches you can't really put them up (can them) because they cling to the peach nut and peeling them can be very difficult. So we use them for the baking, eating, freezing, jam, and late night snacks. The canning peaches hopefully won't be ready for another month or so... because I'm kinda tired of peeling peaches to be honest.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Does anyone else call their hubby babe? I know that my sister Michelle calls her husband baby. Beckham actually started calling me Babe there for awhile. Maybe it's just a family thing.

Any ways... I wanted to share some of the photos we have of Justin's birthday retreat. His uncle Doug was generous enough to let us stay in his cabin up Logan canyon for the weekend and boy did we have fun! I think that the best part of the cabin is that we are so close to Bear Lake, Franklin Basin, red banks and tons of cool fishing locations.

We decided to take beckham to the usual "guaranteed to catch a fish" spot and it was successful yet again! Beckham was able to catch 2 fish with the help of casting from daddy and grandpa.

After fishing we headed back to the cabin for some Oreo Ice Cream cake! It was Delicious!